A mix of chemicals borrowed from plants with tiny tubes of carbon can spontaneously create tiny, self-repairing solar cells.

Online marketplace Craigslist closes its US adult services listing following pressure from attorneys general and advocacy groups.

Turning 16 games consoles into a number-crunching supercomputer

The Modified Toy Orchestra is a band made up of five musicians - and 48 tweaked toy instruments.

Rory Cellan-Jones tries out 3D video equipment and looks at the latest ultra thin and bright OLED TVs.

Google is celebrating the second birthday of its Chrome web browser with the release of Chrome 6. Among the new features are an updated user interface, auto-fill for web forms, extension syncing, increased speed and numerous bug fixes.

Google's web browser will soon gain hardware-accelerated graphics — the latest trend for browsers that has already shown up in early builds of Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4. It also gets a new animated tab organizer.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 is expected to be unveiled Sept. 15, but the company's Russian press site accidentally spilled the beans by posting a screenshot of the browser's new simplified, streamlined interface.

There are already plenty of practical examples of HTML5 on the web. However, to really see the bleeding edge of HTML5 and what might be possible in the future, you'll have to look beyond the practical and peer into the trenches.

Video on the web has always been a lot like television, only smaller. It's still a passive experience. Mozilla would like to change that with a new tool for making video every bit as interactive as the rest of the web.

Summary of the Lasa ICT eBulletin - July 2010

Summary of the Lasa ICT eBulletin - June 2010

Overview of options available for backing up your data

How new solutions can streamline communications and spare the environment

How communications technology is creating new, results-based model of work

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